Standing up for Nature
Mark writes: Hen Harriers too, can’t speak out, can’t hire lawyers, can’t vote – that why we have to do it for them. They also can’t sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting but you can on their behalf.
April Birdwatch, in shops now, is a wildlife crime special with a guest editorial from Chris Packham, an article on wilful blindness by Ruth Tingay, an account of bird killing in the Lebanon by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter and an article on the work of Birders Against Wildlife Crime by Rob Sheldon. My monthly…
East Anglia is miles away from any grouse moors but has a strong Pheasant and partridge shooting tradition. It is also an essentially rural area with a few moderately sized urban areas such as Norwich, Ipswich, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. The breakdown of signatures in support of banning…
If driven grouse shooting were all it’s cracked up to be then you’d think that local people would be its greatest supporters. Well, they aren’t! It seems as though the inhabitants of Chelsea and Fulham are its strongest supporters – those who whizz in to a grouse moor for a while, shoot, and leave?…
I work as a Ranger in Aberdeenshire, where much of my time is spent delivering environmental education programmes in which I take school children out into semi-natural habitats (we don’t really have any natural habitats in the UK, hence we use the term semi-natural) and teach them about different aspects of Scotland’s ecology. In the…